Best Mystery movies of 1979

Actors : Vinod Mehra, Shatrughan Sinha, Sunil Dutt, Sanjeev Kumar,
Directors : Rajkumar Kohli,

A newly married bride disappears after her marriage.

Actors : Ed 'Too Tall' Jones, Elke Sommer, Ernest Borgnine, George Kennedy,
Directors : Joe Camp,

Some school kids stumble across a briefcase full of money, when they go back for it, they find a body instead. When they bring the police, neither is there, and the police refuses to ...

Actors : Chun Shih, Sylvia Chang, Feng Hsu, Hui Lou Chen,
Directors : King Hu,

A scholar, tasked to copy a sutra, meets with a mysterious old lady and her daughter in the mountains.

Actors : John Mills, Margaret Tyzack, Simon MacCorkindale, Barbara Kellerman,
Directors : Piers Haggard,

A separate screenplay by Nigel Kneale for theaters, parallel to the 1979 Quatermass four part mini-series. The story set in the near future involves influences from outer space that are possessing people. Professor Quatermass must save his granddaughter from the clutches of a popular and sinister cult "Planet People" that "performs raptures".

Actors : Makoto Fujita, Eizô Kitamura, Junko Inagawa, Yoshio Harada,
Directors : Seijun Suzuki,

A police detective tries to investigate the mystery of a victim who was shot in the head, but no bullet was found.

Actors : Michael DeLano, Julie Bridges, Laurene Landon, Rory Calhoun,
Directors : Gary Troy,

The capo of a powerful mafia family tries to destroy the local crime task force chief, not realizing that the man he is trying to destroy is his only son.

Actors : Antoine Vitez, Sami Frey, Anne Parillaud, Catherine Deneuve,
Directors : Hugo Santiago,

Young aristocrat Arnaud de Maule hires female private detective Claude Alphand to investigate a strange cult, the Church of the Final Revival, that tried to recruit his girlfriend Chloé, who then disappeared, and it now stalks him.

Actors : Chung Kwan, Sylvia Chang, Norman Chu, Angie Chiu,
Directors : Ann Hui,

A real murder case which was complicated by the minage ' trois relationship of the victim and the main suspects. As different witnesses narrated their conflicting stories, the case seemed ...

Actors : Thomas Hauff, Paully Jardine, Don Francks, Kate Lynch,
Directors : Julius Kohanyi,

SUMMER'S CHILDREN is the story of a young man who tries to escape his troubled home and sister to find a new life for himself. He takes on a new job and enters into new relationships, but ...

Actors : Tomoko Saitô, Toshiyuki Nishida, Isao Natsuyagi, Haruko Wanibuchi,
Directors : Kôsei Saitô,

Famous detective Kindaichi investigates a series of mysterious murders revolving around a wealthy family.

Actors : Gayle Hunnicutt, Derren Nesbitt, Ian Ogilvy, Stratford Johns,
Directors : Cyril Frankel,

A two-part episode of the 1978 TV series "The Return of the Saint," edited together and released as a feature.

Actors : Yun Ling, Peng Tien, Kit Lai, Chung-Erh Lung,
Directors : Yang Ming Tsai,

A non stop, high action adventure that follows the adventures of Hu Tieh Hwa, a brave and mighty knight with unbeatable martial art skills!! His exper-tise in Kung Fu has always saved him, ...